Ayşe E.

My motto, as I live and learn, is: dig and be dug in return. —Langston Hughes
nevver: Circling the Sun - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
"In N.C., conservative donor Art Pope sits at heart of government he helped transform" http://www.washingtonpost.com/politic...
"Pope’s fdn has put more than $55M into…building a state version of what his friends Charles&David Koch have helped create on a nat'l level"
fuckyeahthesupremes: The Supremes, 1965 - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
We’re not here to fuck the band; We are the band. —Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
todaysdocument: Suffragettes Pardoned Bastille Day spells prison for sixteen suffragettes who picketed the White House. Miss Julia Hurlbut of Morristown, New Jersey, leading the sixteen members of the National Womans Party who participated in the picketing demonstration in front of the White House, Washington, District of Columbia, July 14,1917,... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home. - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
explore-blog: "The Tree of Virtues," c. 1250, from The Book of Trees – Manuel Lima’s spectacular 800-year history of visualizing science, spirituality, and human knowledge in symbolic tree diagrams. - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
More like James Garner, pls. #lovely #talented #righteous #rawr James Garner, Witty, Handsome Leading Man, Dies at 86 http://www.nytimes.com/2014...
mediahascookies: "Rockford Files" actor James Garner at the 1963 March on Washington. RIP - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that “I myself” is a separate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body — a center which “confronts” an “external” world of people and things, making contact through the... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
free-parking: Fragment of the face of a queen, yellow jasper, c. 1353–1336 B.C. Middle Egypt - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
Dingo wondering where the Prosecco is going all fancy-like - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
nevver: The Writers’ Retreat, Incidental Comics - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
austinkleon: A short film on Maira Kalman Daydreaming is a function of the brain that’s an uncensored exploration, without controlling it, of ideas and emotions. Often, the best ideas, the smartest ideas, the most amazing ideas come from those moments when you’re not trying. Filed under: Maira Kalman - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
poortaste: Jagwar Ma - Clash Mag Mix https://soundcloud.com/jagwar-... Tracklisting: 1. Sweet Exorcist - Testsix Toneapella 2. Patrice Baumel - The Woods 3. Axel Boman - My Dirty Laundry 4. Pachanga Boys - Power 5. Michael Mayer & Matias Aguayo - Slow 6. Joy Orbison - Fate 7. Tessela - Hackney Parrot (Special Request VIP) 8. Grand High Priest -... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
It seems like many people think that if you drive yourself crazy, then you can write. I’m absolutely not interested in that. It made sense to me to be as whole and well as I could be, and as happy. I wanted to see what a fortunate life would produce. What writing would come out of a mind that didn’t try to torment itself? What did I have to know?... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
I have missed you so much, my darling. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Zadie Smith: What It Means to Be Addicted to Reading - http://www.oprah.com/oprahsb...
thenearsightedmonkey: Therefore, it is summer! - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
thewaking: For Women Who Are Difficult To Love. Warsan Shire. "… I have travelled around and found my body making more sense elsewhere. But I have started to understand what it feels like to belong, so I look forward to exploring different countries and seeing how fully I can feel at home in a place, that at the end of the day, isn’t where I came... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
I am not a place for cowards. - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...
People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence that ever before — are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even... - http://ayse.tumblr.com/post...